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The army has deployed some 30,000 troops to South Waziristan against about 12,000 Taliban militants, whose ranks include up to 1,500 foreign fighters, many of them Uzbeks. More than 100,000 people have fled South Waziristan, including at least 32,000 people over the past week, the U.N. says. Baton-wielding police beat back refugees crowding an aid distribution center run by Pakistani authorities in Paharpur town, some 30 miles (45 kilometers) outside Dera Ismail Khan, a key town near the tribal region. The lines to the center were long, and some refugees tried to climb the facility's boundary wall to get inside. Associated Press reporters saw an old man with a bloodied head. "We came here for bread, but the police beat us up," said Rahmatullah Mehsud, one of the injured. "There, the Taliban were messing with things and the army was showering bombs. Here, we have to bear the clubs."
Aid administrator Javed Shaikh said there was plenty of food, but that the refugees were "impatient." "There are some policemen deployed who are fed up with the indiscipline of the people," he said.
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